"Reality" TV: The Hills Final Episode

I am a reality tv junkie. I am obsessed with, the kardashians, the hills, and all of the real house wives. I have watched every season of every show and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
The Hills final episode has aired and it has everyone talking. All season Kristin and Brody have been friends with benefits. But everyone knows that friends with benefits, doesn’t work out. Someone always ends up catching feelings and getting hurt. In this case it was Kristin. After a short trip to Costa Rico with the group Kristin and Brody stop talking to each other for a while. But by the time they finally decided to talk things out and Kristin got the courage to tell Brody that she wanted a boyfriend, he had already started seeing someone else! So to make a long story short, the whole cast decides to go their separate ways and start their lives off camera. Lo is moving in with her boyfriend, Audrina moved away from Hollywood to a beach house in California. And Kristin decided to move to Europe for the summer.
As Kristin and Brody are saying their tearful goodbyes in front of Kristin’s chauffeur driven town car, the scene takes a dramatic turn. The cameras pan out and you see Brody and Kristin on a television studio set with a million cameras. The background turns out to be a fake Hollywood sign backdrop and Kristin’s town car is a few feet away from Brody. They both hug each other and that’s the scene.
The Hills cast, producers, and crew has all of their fans wondering if everything for the past six years has been fake. Have all the tears, fights, make ups and break up been scripted? Viewers tend to feel close to cast members on the television. I know I do. I believe Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, and I are best friends.
As a telecommunications minor at IU, we learn that nothing is real and we are all being watched. But even after taking multiple classes I still believed that the events and drama that I see on my favorite shows is actually happening in their real life. I am very naive and gullible, this I know. But why after taking all of these classes do I still watch, believe and feel for these characters and reality shows that are on TV? Is it just a guilty pleasure, or do I really believe and am entertained by this nonsense.
Whatever the case may be, I do not see myself discontinuing watching Kourney & Khloe Take Miami or the Real House Wives of New Jersey. It just breaks my heart to know that nothing is real anymore. Not TV, not the girl’s boobs that lives down the hall from you, not music, not even the personality of your so called friend. We’re living in a world of fakeness. But hey, I guess we’re used to it by now.
P.S. Kristin and Brody weren’t even together on the show come to find out. Kristin has been dating one of the camera men from the show, Miguel Medina.